![]() Then you can create a shared folder and an alert threshold. Specify the volume alias, the capacity and bytes per inode. Then select the storage pool and click on Next. If you chose to leverage iSCSI / MPIO, click on close and create a iSCSI volume in Storage & Snapshot. Once the storage pool is created the wizard asks you if you want to create a new volume. In SSD tab, select the SSD and in SATA tab choose the HDD. Open Storage & Snapshots and create a Storage Pool. Now you can plug the NAS to your production network with the 10Gb/s network adapter. To leverage Jumbo Frame, this configuration must be applied on the switches and on the backup server(s). In Network & Virtual Switch, in the trunk click on configure.įill the network settings and specify a Jumbo Frame of 9000. Now your trunk is created, and you can click on Close. I selected this mode because according to the QNAP documentation, it provides the best performance. Next choose General Switch (most common). In this example they are called Adapter 5 and Adapter 6. Open the Network & Virtual Switch panel and navigate to Interfaces. But if the only NAS purpose is backup, I recommend you to not implement NIC teaming. This is why I chose to implement a NIC teaming. But I use also my NAS to store data such as movies, ISO, VHDX, VMDK etc. Because I have 2x 10Gb/s ports, I should implement one IP per adapter and use iSCSI / MPIO. N.B: In this example, I didn’t implement the most optimize network solution. Because the NAS has currently no Internet connection, I downloaded the firmware from QNAP website and I used it to update the NAS. Navigate to Control Panel | System | Firmware Update. When the NAS is ready, check the firmware version and update the NAS. I choose to not enable the multimedia functions.įinally click on Apply to start the configuration of the NAS. I choose only the Windows services.īecause I need to configure Qtier, cache acceleration and so on, I choose to Configure disks later. Next choose which file transfer service you want to enable. Currently it won’t work because the NAS is not connected to the production network. In the next window, provide a NAS name and the admin password. Just click on Start Smart Installation Guide. Then a web browser is open to start the configuration. The tool should discover your NAS, on the first window, just click on Next. From my side, I connected directly my laptop to a 1Gb/s port. ![]() In order that QFinder Pro discover your NAS, make sure you are in the same network subnet. NAS initializationįirst of all, download QFinder Pro from this URL. Let’s see how to configure step-by-step this Qnap to get good performance. Capacity tier: 4x HDD Western Digital 2TB Red PRO => RAID 6.High Speed tier: 2x SSD Intel S3610 500GB => RAID 1.Cache acceleration (Read / Write): 2x Crucial MX500 500GB => RAID 1.I built the following configuration (not full optimized because I didn’t want to buy new SSD / NVMe / HDD): If you require more drives, you can choose the TS-1673U-RP with 64GB of memory for 3500€. With the rails and an additional 4Gb memory, I paid this NAS 1650€. ![]() These NAS can support enough drives to fit your need. In its product list, Qnap has a lot of enterprise-grade NAS that offer redundant power supply, 10Gb/s network adapters, tiering (Qtier), caching and 2x NVMe location (M.2 2280). However, to take advantage of SSD, a 10Gb/s network is required in the storage repository. By increasing the storage repository performances, the backup window will be reduced. Thanks to SSD we can implement caching and tiering. To significantly increase performance, SSD/NVMe can be added to the storage repository. For this kind of storage, we prefer to get the most of capacity so usually only HDD are installed. Usually customers have a decent production infrastructure in term of speed and the bottleneck is the storage repository. Sometimes there are so much data that the night is not enough to backup the whole infrastructure. ![]() Most of my customers try to backup their infrastructure at night to avoid impacting the user workloads. ![]()
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